[New-Poetry] Kleinzahler's bad rep

[James Cervantes]

Loaded question, no?  What kind of "action" does poetry require (assuming
poets reflect it)?
Actually, I suspect that was a rhetorical question.

- Jim

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Makes me wonder what poets DO act like, James.
> Hal
>
> "If you can't stand Byzantine intrigue,
>  get out of the cabal."
> --New Yorker cartoon
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> On Aug 4, 2008, at 4:12 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sfpoet28-2008jul28,0,2422483.story
> with his fighting words, and ways.
> By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
> July 28, 2008
> SAN FRANCISCO -- August Kleinzahler gets into fights at poetry readings.
>  Once, in Ireland, he traded insults with a host he found verbose. At a
> reading in a New York bar, he told a noisy drunk to shut his trap. Fists
> flew after the guy made a crack about Kleinzahler's coat, a sentimental
> hand-me-down from his father.
>
> Kleinzahler goes to readings because he is a poet. He just doesn't act like
> one.
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